Florida is officially in a recession and doing much worse than large states. The Florida economy shrank 1.6 percent during the second quarter. It was the state economy’s worst performance since 1991….
Another electibust in Brownsville
WEAR TV 3 reports: Authorities say more prostitutes are off the streets… Earlier this week, Escambia County Deputies arrested 15 men and women in Brownsville. They say sold themselves for sex. Five…
Where are ECSO cuts?
Mike Whitehead continued his tour de force on budget cuts – which we still believe are really from former County Administrator George Touart. Face it. Comm. Whitehead has not pushed for many…
Record web month for IN
Our website, inweekly.net, had 153,131 visitors. This blog had 215,332 page views and was consistently ranked every week in the top 3 Most Influential Political Blogs in the state by BlogNetNews. A…
Lumon May on Myspace
State House District 3 candidate, Lumon May, has a MySpace account. http://www.myspace.com/lumonmay2008
Girls Gone Wild settles
New Herald reports that “Girls Gone Wild” has settled suit brought by Brittany Pitts. Pitts sued “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis and his company Mantra Films Inc. last year. She claimed…
Will Ron Swanson replace Kenneth Bell on Supreme Court
Traditionally Northwest Florida has had one seat on the Florida Supreme Court. It appears that Santa Rosa Circuit Judge Ron Swanson will get the spot —He’s the only one submitted to Gov….
FDLE error leds to 19 DUI cases dropped
WEAR TV 3/Greg Neuman reports that Judge Joyce Williams tossed breathalyzer results from 19 tests done between February and May of 2007. Those tests came after the Escambia Sheriff’s Office found a…
Whitehead makes his big political play
For the first time sent he was elected in 2004, Commissioner Mike Whitehead plans to announce how he wants to cut $2 million from the Escambia County budget, according to the PNJ….
Airport bonds rated Triple B
Aviationnews.net reports that “Fitch Ratings has assigned a triple B plus rating to the city of Pensacola’s series 2008 general airport revenue bonds and affirmed the triple B plus rating on approximately…
IN Your Head Radio 7.30
Today on IN Your Head Radio we will talk with Attorney General Bill McCollum about his call for an investigation into the Office of Financial Regulation, the state agency overseeing the mortgage…
Bennigan’s, Steak & Ale close
Orlando Sentinel reports – Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale closed their company-owned locations … and filed for bankruptcy protection in one of the largest restaurant failures in recent memory. Read more
Crist sets two-week deadline on review
At yesterdays’ Florida Cabinet meeting, Gov. Charlie Crist gave Don Saxon, the head of the Office of Financial Regulation, two weeks to come up with a plan to toughen licensing standards for…
McCain/John Rich concert now free
The first press release for the GOP-sponsored John Rich (of Big & Rich) concert in Panama City on Friday would cost $10 per ticket. Now it’s free. According to the News Herald,…
UF beats out Ole Miss
Times have changed. The Princeton Review ranks the University of Florida as the No. 1 Party School. Ole Miss came in second. The Ole Miss Pikes (Pi Kappa Alpha) must have been…
Bad hiring at DOJ
Last month I reported on how the Department of Justice under Alberto Gonzalez had used the Internet to reject some of the top law students in the country from getting internships and…
Linens’n Things closing stores
It appears Pensacola store is safe, but the retailer is closing 57 under-performing stores nationwide. When retailer’s parent company, Linens Holding Co., filed for bankruptcy on May 2, it had announced then…
More on Borrowers Betrayed
Last week I reported on the blog on the Miami Herald’s special investigation – “Borrowers Betrayed” – that revealed how state regulators had allowed thousands of criminals to become loan originators allowing…
TOBaW – There Ought to Be a Word
Give us a word for: – (verb) To take credit for things while serving public office that you had little or nothing to do with. We’re seeing a lot of this in…
McCain likes music, too
The big Internet myth being spread last week was that only reason Barack Obama had such a big crowd in Berlin (200,000 plus) was that there was a rock concert tied to…
